Show ELECTRIC WORKERS i DECIDE TO STRIKE Inside Vote to Go Out the Order Affecting One OneHundred OneHundred OneHundred Hundred Men MenThe MenThe MenThe The strike of or the inside of ot the tho International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 3 4 which has been hanging fire for several veral days da has been called and with the exception exception exception tion of at about men who are employed by b contractors who Vho have signed the agreement no union men are working About men are at af affected tooted i Meetings have been held from day I today but not until yesterday waft waa the question quo definitely settled The mem members members members bers of or the union met in Federation of or Labor hall han yesterday morning whore the strike was officially called A committee composed of or W v C CoreJ CMorey More Morey J R It Auguston and B N f Greenwood called on the various elec electrical electrical electrical contractors of or the city elt on March Karch 16 1 and presented the following new ne agreement for lor the coming year Hours Hour H urs of or Work Eight hours hour to constitute a days work from S 8 a m to 12 13 noon and lId from 1 p m to 5 6 p pm pm pm m also to quit work at 12 13 1 noon Sat Saturdays Saturdays Wage Scale Minimum wage for tor Journeymen to be UiO a day of or eight hours hoars minimum wages for helpers to tobe tobe be 1 9 I a day of eight ea ht hours hour Jour Journeyman Journeyman Journeyman neyman with two or more journey journeymen men under his hie supervision to receive a minimum of or 6 5 a day dJ of eight el bt hours hour hou Overtime to be paid at the rate of time lime and for lor work days and double time for Saturday afternoon Sunday and ami holidays The recognized holidays to be as follows January 1 Decoration day July 4 July 24 H Thanksgiving day and Christmas day dar No work to be bedona bedone done dona on Labor day Apprentices No contractor to have havo in his hi employ more than thaD one ap apprentice apprentice apprentice prentice for every two tO Journeymen Wages ages to lo be paW pall once onee a week w Contractors may hold back no more mote m than two days pay Contractors to recognise and maintain a union shop Any An trouble between any an con contractor contractor tractor and any member or members of ot the said local union to be bl settled by br arbitration The board of arbitration to consist con of ot two members member of or the tb elec electrical electrical electrical contractors contractor and two members mem of ot the tho local union The fifth patty party to bo be n disinterested dl party and to be chosen oho en by b both parties partS This Th l agreement to go 10 into effect June IS 16 1910 1110 and remain binding oo cc both parties for tor one year from that date A member of ot the Ule union states eta that no action was U taken hiken by the different houses of or the city cit and a letter was written two weeks week ago to the Con Contractors Contractors Contractors tractors association of or Salt Lake ask askIne askIn asking Ine ing In that a meeting be arranged be tween the he association elation and the Ute union and that the matter be amicably set settled settled et tied According to his hlll the letter lotter was 88 Ignored and much faction arose among the members of or orthe the union who demanded some Imme Immo Immediate Immediate diate action Thus far Car only four tour of ot the electrical contractors of the city have signed the now new agreement Tho The following firms have signed the llie new ne schedule and their men have gone gono book beak to work The Electrical Engineering Construction company th tM the Universal Electric company J L S Jones and William The books of 01 the union show aho a membership of or 13 About of those these are aro affected by the strike the theother theother theother other being employed by bythe bythe bythe the houses who havo bavo signed up Tho The electrical houses house hou always have maintained an open shop and about fifty nonunion men mon ate employed at present Some of ot the tho houses housos 8 state that they will never give glye in to the tho de demands demands mands mamIs of or the union and that non nonunion nonunion nonunion union men mt n will be employed to rill flU the vacancies of or tho the strikers rk nt I |